The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 5

» fight {8 not pver and that the attack (SECOND PRIZE WINNER) HOOD RUBBER CO, WORKERS STIRRED BY PLANT PAPER Five Distributors A re Arrested by Cops By H. J. CANTER (Worker Correspondent) WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec, 16. — The first number of the Hood Rubber Worker made its appearance Wednes- day at Watertown, Mass., where the big. factory of the Hood Rubber com- pany, employing nine thousand work- ers is situated. The paper was received with mixed feelings, “Just what we need—a union,” cried the workers, as they ‘ead the headline. But the bosses Jhought differently, They got blue the face and chased the distribu- lors off the company property, Time to Resist Here, The Hood Rubber Worker is the Product.of a group of workers in the factory who feel that the time has come to ‘resist the bosses’ speed-up eampaign.’ Born of the struggle it was issued: just at the time that an imerease in the “ticket,” or quota of daily production, had gone into effect in the’ tennis departthent, where 800 girls are employed, In some instances these girls Were required to make 30 per cent more shoes Without extra pay..A similar speeding yp has re- cently taken place In the gum shoe department and other departments were due for the increase. At pres- ent the average weekly earnings of these girls are between $15.00 and $16.00, Read It Eagerly, These down trodden slaves of the hood “rubber” barons. greeted the Paper with enthusiasm. Little knots of. workers soon gathered on. the grounds, eagerly discussing the paper and its contents, ‘while the bosses went from group to group, exhorting them not to heed the “socialist” liter- ature, Arrest Five, The distributors did a most effect- ive job in disposing of the issue in short time, and no copies were left by the time the bosses got the dicks on the job, and the guardians of the law apparently, because it was the proper thing to do, arrested five, who were at this time enjoying coflee and “sinkers” in a nearby lungheart, At the police station no charge’ could be found against them and after an hour they were released. * Those arrested were H. J. Canter, Melvin Sack, Abraham Roisin, Louis Blume and L. Strauss. , (THIRD PRIZE WINNER) RIGHT WING IN DETROIT TRIES TO STOP MEET But Closkmialieta’ Relief Goes On By LENA ROSENBERG. (Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Dec, 16.—A successful meeting was held here at the Macal- lester hall for the relief of the New York cloakmakers on strike. The meeting was called by a confer- ence organized for this purpose, con- sisting of trade unions and other or- ganizations made up of workers. At this conference there were present many right wing delegates who are supporting the Sigman machine and tried to break the conference by claim- ing that the strike is over and that there is no need for relief any more. However, the majority of the organt- zations voted for the continuance of the relief work until the strike is won completely. Would Disturb Meeting, And so the meeting preparations went on, but that.did not satisfy the Sigman supporters, and so they thought that by coming to the meet- ing and creating a disturbance and perhaps a little fight “a la Sigman” they could yet succeed in breaking the meeting, but the ittee in charge of the meeting was Well pre- pared for them. When the chairman of the meeting, who is a business agent of the paintgs’ union, called upon the 500 workers assembled at Macallester hall to give and to prove to the workers all over the country that the workers in Detroit do not believe what the Forward says, one of these right wingers made an at- tempt to start something, But the committee was on the job and in- formed this “friend of the working class” that he could‘either stay and listen or leave, and they looked so determined that there was no more’ disturbance that evening, Collect $200, A collection of over $200 was taken | up and then Coretze, who was sent here by the general strike, was called upon, Amidst great applause in which he pointed oyt that the cloakmakers’ of the right wing is making it still harder and that all workers must sup- port them to a finish. Oc _ WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Use your brains ana your pen to aid the workers in the alka struggle, ~ WORKER. \ THE DAFELY WORKE Page Five PRIZE WINNERS THIS WEEK The Youngstown, Ohio, worker cor! respondent is awarded first prize, this week for his story telling of unemployment conditions in the “valley of steel and Iron.” He will receive a copy of Bishop Brown’s “My Heresy,” an inter- esting book that every worker should read. This worker correspondent will be able to! Second prize is awarded to H. J. Canter who tells of the appearance of the first issue of the, Hood Rubber Worker and the reaction “from it. He is awarded Jas. H. Dolsen’s book on “The Awakening of China.” Third prize this week goes to Lena Rosenberg of Detroit, who. reports the meeting of the needle trades there to ald the New York garment work- ers, telling how the right wing failed to block the affair. “PRIZES FOR NEXT WEEK. More and more worker correspondents are wanted for The WORKER, Every worker in every in DAILY dustry should write the facts of hap- penings in his industry and send them in so that other workers can know what is going on. For the next week the best stories. They are: three splendid prizes are offered for —LENIN ON ORGANIZATION, collected speeches and writings on funda- mental problems by our great leader. —-WORKERS MONTHLY, six mont! ureable and worth-while reading. Cloth-bound edition. hs subscription—six issues of pleas- RED CARTOONS. We offer this prize again knowing how you will enjoy It! SEND IN THAT STORY TODAY! (FIRST PRIZE WINNER) JOBLESS, SWARM VALLEY OF STEEL AND IRON IN SEARCH OF WORK; SEE NO SIGNS OF COOLIDGE PROSPERITY By a Worker Correspondent. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec, 16. — The workers of this city, situated in the Valley of Iron and Steel, are giv- ing up all hope of getting either a scent or taste of the “prosperity” of which politicians have so eloquently boasted in the months preceding the recent elections. ‘ The unemployed workers are going from one employment. office to an- other seeking a master and begging his leave to toil, But alas, we can not find one who is even willing to let us work at his own price. A few days ago I visited an employ- ment bureau, After learning that some of them had been around there five or six hours, had seen nobody getting hired and had received no information I pushed my way to the front, And not knowing anything about steel mill etiquette I stepped into the office’ where the employment agent sat on his throne. Mr, Agent’s reply to my inquiry for work was a peremptory, “No, no there. is nothing doing, and if you want to get anything around here you will have to have manners enough to stay out where you belong until I call you in.” <\ Employment Office Filled. I went to the City-State Employ- ment office in the basement of the city hall. Approximately eighty-five men and about one hundred women BIG PAPER BOX COMPANY SIGNS WITH STRIKERS N. Y. Struggle Looks Better Now By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The pros pects are a bit brighter for the settle- ment of the paper box makers’ union strike. The biggest firm in the loose | federation of five employers’ assocta- | tions has broken away and signed with | the union. Altho this means only 75 workers go back to work, the effect will be widespread in other shops. Union Manager Fred Caiola expects 50 more settlements to be made al- most immediately. as a result and! states that this settlement breaks up| the determined stand the employers’ federation had taken for an open shop. | Charges of police brutality are be- ing investigated by Chief Police In- spector Thomas J, Cummings, All victims are reporting their versions of events to him at his office. The inquiry is the resyt of pressure from the union and the American Civil Lib- erties Union in presenting affidavits on the subject to Mayor Walker and Police Commissioner McLaughlin. were crowded in there as tho they were sardines and about twice as many were waiting outside for some of the crowd to come out so they could step in and wait in this slave market. Seek More Production. While the army of unemployed are walking the streets the efficiency ex- perts are busy in the mills doping out what piece of machinery can be brought in that will increase the amount of production and reduce the number of employes. Red Cross Strategy. A few weeks ago the Red Cross made its usual begging trip thru this city. Apparently knowing that mill workers were wise to them and would give nothing to such an organization on its merits they sent their most pul- ehritudinous lassies in to beseach, with cunning smiles, a part of each workers’ small pay. In the street car I heard one Red Cross dame remark that the foreign- ers were not contributing as they should and that they had no love for either “god” or Old Glory and should be deported to the land from whence they came. © Need Organization, How and why is it that no effort is made to organize the steel workers. Conditions are as ripe as can be, vn good militant organizer could make wonderful headway, why not try. Photos of Living Paper to Be Taken Here Sat. The next number of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper pub- lished by the worker correspondents of Novy Mir, will be out Saturday, Dec. 18, at 8 p. m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. A picture of the audience will be taken’ at the request of the worker correspondents of the Soviet Union. The picture will be sent to Soviet Russia, Make yourself a The Red Gift | Package present WORKER CORRESPONDENCE GLASS MEETS TODAY; ALL | STUDENTS SHOULD ATTEND The regular meeting of the Chi- cago class in worker correspondence will be held tonight, Friday, in the editorial offices of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd, Members of the class are urged to b@ on time at this méet- ing—6:30 o9’clock—in order that no time will be lost, Students who have missed one or two sessions are urged to be at the class session tonight as new fields of work are being opened and all should get this valuable experience. UNION PAINTERS JOBLESS, WORK IN HANDS OF SCABS Los Angeles Faces Big Organization Need By RAPO (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGBLES, Dec. 16.—A group of us jobless union painters went out over the city searching for work. We visited many new buildings in the cen- ter of the city, which are being done with non-union labor, In a new building where large stores were under construction we asked the men if there was any chance to get a job. While talking we asked one of | the painters if he was a union man. “No,” came tthe reply. “I was carry- ing a card for.six years and lately I had to drop it.” “Why?” hel twas asked. “I was out of work, I couldn’t go to work under the scale, and our trade isn’t organized: The bosses pay six and seven dollars a day only. I had to aecept a job and drop the card,” the man told’ us, Are Unorganized. The painters'in this city are wnor- ganized. The biggest jobs in the city are being done with non-union labor. The workers Who are in the union are unemployed; they have been forced out by the ‘cHeaper non-union labor. Many painters, seeing no protection and security af a, job by the union, are getting discouraged and are drop- Ping their cards. The question arises, what is to be done? oft: The Problem. Only about one-fourth of the painters in the city are organized, Shall we gliaw the open shoppers, the chamber af commerce, the M. and M. and the other bosses’ organizations to lower our standard of living by smashing the;.anion, or shall we or- ganize and fight for job control and a hundred per cent union town? At this moment, when our union is facing «a life-and death situation we must: get -busyvand put life into the slogan, “Organize the Unorganized!” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! “The pen fs mightier than the sword,” providéd you know how to use it. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s classes. of WOOLEN TRUST SFEKS.NEW WAYS OF EXPLOITATION: More “Manpower’”’ Is Its Chief Objective : By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD, (Worker Correspondent) WORCESTER, Dec, 16.—The merging of many mills and the removal of still more mills to the south is part of the re organization process that is now tak- | ing place in the textile industry, The strongest of the New Hngland combines is the powerful American | Woolen Trust. This corporation main tains a’ miniature cotton mffl in Bos ton, Mass., which is mechanically equipped for duplication of the op tions of the larger mills. Connected with this experimental mill is a unique laboratory containing the latest de- vices for trying out various processes as well as new mechanical inventions to enable the woolen trust to maintain its supremacy in the textile industry through greater exploitation of its tens of thousands of textile slaves. Workers Considered Slaves, The cold, calculating manner in which the textile slaves are consid- ered ag nothing but slaves and the manner in which the textile barons exploit their slaves in this machine age is frankly discussed in an article urer of the Pacific Mills, one of the Lawrence units of the American Woolen Corporation, in the current issue of the Textile World, in which he writes, in part, as follows: Get More “Manpower.” “Control of production in the va- rious processing stages is a subject |to which Pacific Mills gives close at- j tention. We have a planning depart- ment thru which orders are plotted against capacity and are kept in sight and on schedule all the way thru the plants. And in plant operation a more intelligent use of manpower and an improved position for operatives are constantly kept in view. “Cotton mills’ operatives are ma- chine tenders, They work when threads break. Hence the road to more looms per weaver, which means . . . lower costs, is via evener threads from the spinning frames and s0 on back thru the earlier processes. By echnical research, Pacific Mills. has succeeded in improving the threads and thus increasing the machines per operative—in some cases, fourfold.” Have Company Union, The Pacific Mills is one of the larg- est mills in the largest textile center. It uses each year the cotton product of more than 200,000 acres and the wool clip of almost 2,500,000 sheep. It produces over 800 miles of finished cloths every day and is one of the most profitable of the woolen trust's units. Its so-called company union scheme is but one of the means for staving off unionization of its many thousands of textile slaves, among whom are a great portion of English- speaking workers,, The present speed- up conditions and the low wages, which average about $15 per week for operatives, is naturally creating a tre- mendous discontent which should be crystallized in organization work. There is a crying need for organiza- tion of the unorganized, and the time to do it fs now, Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. it’s only 5 cents. contributed by Edwin F. Greene, treas- | oer Veale O56 os 2 | wow hath SEAS eare oe ew Englamd textile | ES 3 = a a 1M THis a | @heaeep ng AN MO ERETURING WEAR LY Ii og NeTAG iM we US, @ ‘Waukegan Teamsters | Sponsor Passaic Film to Raise Labor Morale By a Worker Correspondent. WAUKEGAN, Ill, Dec, 16.—“The | Passaic Textile Strike” motion picture will’be shown here at the Slovanian | National Home, 10th street and McAl- auspices of Teamsters’, Chauffeurs’, Stablemen’s and Helpers’ Local Union No, 292. The teamsters’ union is looking for- ward to the affair as something far- reaching in effect. It had two object& in view in showing the picture; first, io raise funds for relief of the needy strikers and, second, as an educationa} feature. The teamsters’ union is of the opin- on that the “Passaic Textile Strike” picture is sufficiently educationaj to erve as one of the means to help jar loose the inertia from which the local trade union movement has suffered ever since the steel strike, Federal Grand Jury Makes Short Work of Indicting the Foreigners By L. P. 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